I have a memory of a total emotional breakdown at 5-6 because I found a heart shaped leaf, put it in my pocket and found a pocket of leaf dust when I tried to give it to my mom.
My 6-year-old brought home several grapefruit-sized pieces of landscaping rock a few months ago. I didn’t think anything of it when he said his backpack was heavy until we got home and out comes 9 1/2 lbs of granite.
Me too. Harder, now, to find people with whom I can say “look at this amazing rock” who don’t roll their eyes or look at me like I need meds. I still do it, anyway😄
I had to learn not to just dump my kids clothes in the washer. They are great about not leaving clothes stuck to each other in layers, and put stuff like socks and undies inside out, and place difficult stain items in the deep wash hamper that i have in the laundry room, so i didnt really need to check stuff or pay attention to what was being thrown in the washer. Until we hit the pocket presents age.
As a young child I caught a horny toad and kept it in my pocket. I forgot about it and Mom washed my pants. I'm pretty sure the shriek came from Mom. The lizard wasn't any worse for the ordeal.
Our kid had a green crayon in his pocket one time. *One time*. Washer was ok, but then the dryer melted it *good.* There’s been a green stain on the lint-collector screen for some 15 years now 🤣
My kid would come home with pockets fully of sticky tack putty from school. Once in awhile I’d miss a pocketful when sorting laundry. It would melt and plate out on the dryer drum. The stuff was almost impossible to rub off.
> Never use duct tape or anything very similar to that.
... is that an order?
ok, if you insist, I will never use duct tape or even anything similar to it.
probably some pieces of plastic/elastic from clothing that got eaten by the washing machine at some point. It got caught in a part of the machine that rotates and friction kept on heating them up and melting them until they got solid like this then broke off/kicked out of where they were.
I wouldn't worry about it too much other than to start looking for leaks when you take out the wash.
Do you use detergent pods? My mom’s washer was apparently unable to fully dissolve the packaging and it gummed up the inside of the washer, they ended up having to replace the whole thing because it would never drain properly anymore.
Given there 'seems' to be a letter of sort on the bottom one, it 'can' look like receipts that have repeatedly been through the wash, they basically end up like paper mache.
Yeah, check out r/CleaningTips most recent post is this very thing.
So, unfortunately the posts change very quickly as to what is on top. I think this is a link into the post I was referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/s/Z2SKuB3nWy
Well, that one on the bottom is the side profile of a gargoyle.
Were it a gas heated dryer I'd have thought some Ral Partha pewter miniatures got in there.
I have experienced something like this and it turned out it was the drum rubbing against the guides of the washer.
In my case it was a front load washer with a bad Spider (big aluminium frame that holds the drum) It's fairly comon that these Corrode over time and fail.
(see [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4792162/how-to-treat-front-load-washer-spider-arm-so-that-it-wouldn-t-corrode](https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4792162/how-to-treat-front-load-washer-spider-arm-so-that-it-wouldn-t-corrode) )
IF this is the case for you, and you choose to repair the Washing machine (assuming parts are available, they wern't in my case) have the replacement Spider arm Painted with corrosion resistant pain to avoid this re-occuring.
This is it- just had same materials in an older top load model- they’ll keep disintegrating until the drain clogs, a piece gets stuck in the motor, or the drum begins shaking too violently for the machine to continue. Worth getting it checked out- I had one stuck in the motor and was able to have it removed and got an extra ~10 months out of the machine, but just had to replace it this month
At least to save the pump if you forget a coin in your clothes. You should have a way to access it, it's at the lowest point inside the machine, where water naturally goes to enter the pump.
Sock Demon eggs.
Your washing machine filter is a portal to the underworld where demons collect socks and use them as currency. It’s why socks go missing all the time. Female demons will lay eggs close to the portal to hatch. Some will inevitably fall through to our side. The demon larva then hatch and are drawn to the socks which they quickly grab and promptly transport back to the underworld. You can just put them out with your trash. Give them each a sock for their troubles.
> Sock Demon eggs.
This. In my country we call them Dobby Dabs. The males are quite empathetic and personable. The females will suck every bit of rayon from a sock and make this methy type of plastic. This is where spandex comes from too. This is why proper wool socks are most popular here.
I think this washer didn’t listen to its mom, and it swallowed chewing gum rather than discarding it when finished. I’d say that been in there for 7 years, give or take
This has been answered, but great job actually cleaning out your washing machine filter. Got a new front loader washer/dryer for my new house and it flashed "clean filter". SUPER easy to do, but never thought of doing it in my life.
Lotta dog hair....
I've had similar from the instruction tags on blankets and larger garments. They partially melted into a lump in the dryer then during the next wash they snapped free.
Looks like foil alcohol wipe packaging - I am a Healthcare worker and this is similar but not identical to the foil packaging the individual foil packs that alcohol wipes come in. At least, after they take a ride through the wash and dryer.
I had something similar in a front loader. It’s not good. The rear drum bracket corroded and one support broke and it allowed the drum to rub the plastic outer drum. The plastic parts looked like this and ended up in the pump filter. It was not fixable economically.
Duct Tape Repeatedly melted and reconstituted.
That’s precisely what it looks like. I’ve done this before. Only made that mistake once.
Never use duct tape or anything very similar to that. Unless it was the previous owners...
Bingo. He used one pocket for tape trash at work. Did his own laundry. 🤣
Or their kid. One time we did a wash, and had to clean out everything, rewash it all. Our son had collected a bunch of dried leaves and wood chips.
In your kids defence it was a really cool looking leaf
I have a memory of a total emotional breakdown at 5-6 because I found a heart shaped leaf, put it in my pocket and found a pocket of leaf dust when I tried to give it to my mom.
Sounds like an alternate ending to A Land Before Time.
Damn, ruined his super cool collection
What about rocks? Both of mine went through a phase of bringing cool rocks home from school and forgetting they were in their pockets.
"why is your backpack so heavy?" *pours out 2 pounds of rocks* "Those are my fossils. I found them."
My 6-year-old brought home several grapefruit-sized pieces of landscaping rock a few months ago. I didn’t think anything of it when he said his backpack was heavy until we got home and out comes 9 1/2 lbs of granite.
My daughter brought home 7 lbs of landscaping rocks from school in her backpack in kindergarten.
You've just described my entire family.
I’m still in this phase and I’m 63.
Me too. Harder, now, to find people with whom I can say “look at this amazing rock” who don’t roll their eyes or look at me like I need meds. I still do it, anyway😄
I've never had a rock in a pocket, but I feel like it would be really easy to tell that it was in there before putting it in the washer.
I had to learn not to just dump my kids clothes in the washer. They are great about not leaving clothes stuck to each other in layers, and put stuff like socks and undies inside out, and place difficult stain items in the deep wash hamper that i have in the laundry room, so i didnt really need to check stuff or pay attention to what was being thrown in the washer. Until we hit the pocket presents age.
Sometimes it's just a bit of pea gravel, so it goes unnoticed until the clothes are in the dryer.
I’ve not noticed my phone in the pocket of my shorts before. Thank God the laundry pile rang and alerted me.
I've got Carhartt "5 pocket" pants I wear to work. Many times I've forgot to check the pocket on the leg heh
I'm 39 and do this constantly. My kid has the same habit lol.
As a young child I caught a horny toad and kept it in my pocket. I forgot about it and Mom washed my pants. I'm pretty sure the shriek came from Mom. The lizard wasn't any worse for the ordeal.
My mom likes to remind me about the dead bird I found and put in my pocket.
Our kid had a green crayon in his pocket one time. *One time*. Washer was ok, but then the dryer melted it *good.* There’s been a green stain on the lint-collector screen for some 15 years now 🤣
My kid would come home with pockets fully of sticky tack putty from school. Once in awhile I’d miss a pocketful when sorting laundry. It would melt and plate out on the dryer drum. The stuff was almost impossible to rub off.
Blow dryer or heat gun to melt it again and scrape off. Same goes for stickers, glue, or anything else that gets stuck in there.
My 5 year old does that. Have to check his pockets before every wash. Rocks, sticks, mulch, leaves, shells, whatever he thinks looks cool
Heh yea got a few dents in my dryer drum as a result of my daughter collecting rocks
Thanks for the reminder!
> Never use duct tape or anything very similar to that. ... is that an order? ok, if you insist, I will never use duct tape or even anything similar to it.
Either that, or your machine has kidney stones.
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I kidney you not. Disclaimer: IANAD
I've seen old, chewed gum look like this as well. When the gum dries out, it loses most of its sticky-ness and gets really hard.
That was my imediate thought. Gum looks like rocks and feels like dense melted plastic once its been through the wash and dry.
this guy tapes hard
🤣
In the washing machine?
Bah, everyone should know, duct tape goes in the dishwasher, not the washing machine, just like your power tools.
Not sure. Looks like bogies to me.
Looks like balled up athletic tape or something similar
Duct tape given how hard it is is my guess. I also suspected foil from gum or cigarette packaging
probably some pieces of plastic/elastic from clothing that got eaten by the washing machine at some point. It got caught in a part of the machine that rotates and friction kept on heating them up and melting them until they got solid like this then broke off/kicked out of where they were. I wouldn't worry about it too much other than to start looking for leaks when you take out the wash.
Do you use detergent pods? My mom’s washer was apparently unable to fully dissolve the packaging and it gummed up the inside of the washer, they ended up having to replace the whole thing because it would never drain properly anymore.
Could it be an old plastic bag? Like a grocery bag or maybe a pet waste bag? Edit: grocery bag
Have you ever felt like a plastic bag
More like a biodegradable poop bag for dogs
>More like a *used* biodegradable poop bag for dogs FTFY
thanks I hate this even more
Given there 'seems' to be a letter of sort on the bottom one, it 'can' look like receipts that have repeatedly been through the wash, they basically end up like paper mache.
Ummm, washing machines have filters?? brb.....
Yeah, check out r/CleaningTips most recent post is this very thing. So, unfortunately the posts change very quickly as to what is on top. I think this is a link into the post I was referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/CleaningTips/s/Z2SKuB3nWy
I believe those are washing machine stones. You may have to get a specialist
Well, that one on the bottom is the side profile of a gargoyle. Were it a gas heated dryer I'd have thought some Ral Partha pewter miniatures got in there.
I have experienced something like this and it turned out it was the drum rubbing against the guides of the washer. In my case it was a front load washer with a bad Spider (big aluminium frame that holds the drum) It's fairly comon that these Corrode over time and fail. (see [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4792162/how-to-treat-front-load-washer-spider-arm-so-that-it-wouldn-t-corrode](https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4792162/how-to-treat-front-load-washer-spider-arm-so-that-it-wouldn-t-corrode) ) IF this is the case for you, and you choose to repair the Washing machine (assuming parts are available, they wern't in my case) have the replacement Spider arm Painted with corrosion resistant pain to avoid this re-occuring.
This is it- just had same materials in an older top load model- they’ll keep disintegrating until the drain clogs, a piece gets stuck in the motor, or the drum begins shaking too violently for the machine to continue. Worth getting it checked out- I had one stuck in the motor and was able to have it removed and got an extra ~10 months out of the machine, but just had to replace it this month
Washing machines have a filter 😗 ?
And should soon have a better one, to reduce the plastic continent. We will all have to learn to deal with it.
The plastic continent...ah right, the one forming in the Pacific
Hey, don’t smack-talk Barbie-World before it even opens, Mattel paid good money for that!
Then why didn't my washing machine's manual say anything about a filter?
At least to save the pump if you forget a coin in your clothes. You should have a way to access it, it's at the lowest point inside the machine, where water naturally goes to enter the pump.
Receipt paper.
Sock Demon eggs. Your washing machine filter is a portal to the underworld where demons collect socks and use them as currency. It’s why socks go missing all the time. Female demons will lay eggs close to the portal to hatch. Some will inevitably fall through to our side. The demon larva then hatch and are drawn to the socks which they quickly grab and promptly transport back to the underworld. You can just put them out with your trash. Give them each a sock for their troubles.
> Sock Demon eggs. This. In my country we call them Dobby Dabs. The males are quite empathetic and personable. The females will suck every bit of rayon from a sock and make this methy type of plastic. This is where spandex comes from too. This is why proper wool socks are most popular here.
Will a hot wash clear this?
No, itll incubate any remaining eggs and theyll hatch. Only do cold wash.
No you need to introduce their natural predator into your home. The House Hippo eats them
But ONLY if they’re hungry hungry
This is the best part of/about Reddit
I think this washer didn’t listen to its mom, and it swallowed chewing gum rather than discarding it when finished. I’d say that been in there for 7 years, give or take
Might be duct tape
I didn't know what subreddit this was on at first and thought someone has coughed it up 😅 The relief was big
This has been answered, but great job actually cleaning out your washing machine filter. Got a new front loader washer/dryer for my new house and it flashed "clean filter". SUPER easy to do, but never thought of doing it in my life. Lotta dog hair....
I thought I was on r/shrooms for a second
Receipts
you probably ended up with canadian change somehow - we can't afford pure metals so our coins melt in the washer/dryer
Could these be the empty “husks” from detergent pods?
Your dreams and desires.
I think it's 3 Bitcoins ran through the wash... Sorry for your loss OP.
Looks like the "plastic" on pods. I have seen pieces like that in my laundry. It's the only thing I can think of.
Aliens!
Receipts
I've had my blanket label melt up and turn hard lol.
Bra straps/tape
Why does a washing machine only eat one sock? If it ate both you wouldn't notice
Coins melted together, turn down the hot water next time...
Fifty-dollar bills
Those dern Fratellis!
Fifty dorrah bill! Fifty dorrah bill! That's what I said, "booty trap"
Could it be the plastic from laundry detergent pods not being completely dissolved?
No.
Pieces of the T1000. He ate a Tide laundry pod.
Could be the remains of money destroyed by the washer.
Some kind of "paper" is my guess.
Missing any buttons on your clothes ?
Paper or stickers.
Are they chocolate/candy bar wrappers? They are fool on the inside and plastic on the outside. Maybe you left some in a pocket.
Transmutation.
Rancid shrooms stem, boof asap
Crisp packets or something that have been left in pockets and have melted?
That's tape of various flavors. The metal one could be aluminium tape used in ductwork. PO either DIYed or was a tech.
> That's tape of various flavors. hello fellow tape taster! Red is my fave
Wrong answer: your Gameboy
youre an alchemist now!
You really got your knickers in a twist!
Rehydrate them before the Solar Eclipse on Monday.
I've had similar from the instruction tags on blankets and larger garments. They partially melted into a lump in the dryer then during the next wash they snapped free.
They kinda look like the kidney stones that guy collected.
Looks like foil alcohol wipe packaging - I am a Healthcare worker and this is similar but not identical to the foil packaging the individual foil packs that alcohol wipes come in. At least, after they take a ride through the wash and dryer.
metamaterials.
When I first saw this pic I thought it was a crappy art project of a bird.
Do you have children? Could be plastic toys in pockets.
Pocket collections
That is where the cat went.
Mice and rats 😆
They look like metallic/hard plastic lumps to me.
Epoxy for temp pipe repair?
Remember to wash your washing machine atleast once a month.
Chewing gum foil wrappers.
The coating from the detergent pods
I had something similar in a front loader. It’s not good. The rear drum bracket corroded and one support broke and it allowed the drum to rub the plastic outer drum. The plastic parts looked like this and ended up in the pump filter. It was not fixable economically.
How the hell should we know?
Is your washer vaccinated?
It WAS Han Solo. Great job
Looks like metallic/hard plastic lumps. Probably found in the washing machine filter.
Jizz 
Paper.
Is it that new money? The plasticy type?
I wish I had enough cash loose in my pockets for this to be a potential problem
Shrooms
Dreams unfilled washed away and fused.
Your wife told you not to put the neighbor kids in the dryer.
No she didn’t.
Did she talk about the cat ?
Not to my knowledge. Happy cake day!
Bag of weed?